Margaret Mahy

It’s the holiday between school and university and Ellis is free. When he meets Jackie and three strange sisters he is pulled into a series of bizarre situations. In twenty-four exciting hours Ellis is changed forever.

It was a warning. Laura felt it when she looked in the mirror that morning. There had been others: the day her father left home, the day she met Sorensen - the boy with the strange silver eyes.

But nothing had prepared Laura for the horror of today. And now her little brother, Jacko, was fighting for his life after being sucked dry of his youth by the sinister Carmody Braque.

Laura knows there is only one way to save Jacko; she must join Sorensen and use his supernatural powers to change over if there is to be any hope for her little brother.

When Pete meets his cousins, he discovers that being a member of the Fortune family requires qualifications.

The story of Delphinium who spends her tenth birthday on the Space Station Vulnik, fighting pirates and reviving a travelling circus.

Monty is allergic to ghosts, they make him sneeze. As soon as he sets foot in the Brinsley Codd School for Sensible Thought he knows it's haunted, but he cannot convince the teachers.

When three strange children join Maddigan’s Fantasia, the greatest circus in the world, twelve-year-old Garland Maddigan finds herself on a terrifying adventure. She is taken into a world of underground tunnels, the land of the Witch Finder and through time itself.

When Sophie's discovery of a whalebone pendant awakens the ghost of Captain Cathardo, his cries for help are heard by Bonniface Sapwood, an explorer, Corona Wottley, a naturalist and oily villain, Rancid Swarthy, who all set off for the Antarctic!

Saracen Hobday is a very shy orphan who lives on a lonely island with his granny. Granny was once a detective inspector, famous for catching villains. When granny hears that her erstwhile pirate captive, Grudge-Gallows, has escaped, she sets off to recapture him.